Le Show; 2006-06-18

Here it is, from deep inside your radio. Yeah, here it is. I'm often asked, ladies and gentlemen, how much time, Harry, take to do one of those silly shows. And the answer is on days like this, I'll let you know when it stops. This is New Orleans, Louisiana, and apparently a lot of phone lines out of here haven't been working today. Big rain storm ending the drought. So we're trying to get the show out to the stations around the country. We missed the first batch, they'll have to listen on the website, boohoo, hey, helps my hit count. How's your hit count, babe? And it is New Orleans, a lot of weird stories coming out of this city. Corrie is going up again, which is not related to the Army Corps of Engineers this time, actual just street crime, not the big criminal negligence, you see, you understand.

And a local rapper, Corey Seymurter Miller, his, his, given name is Corey Miller, you see, his rapper name is Seymurter, and he's about to stand trial once again, second trial on charges of second degree murder. Say I think what the hip hop community needs to do, ladies and gentlemen, and I know the hip hop community tunes in every week here just to get, just to get the, the 401 on what they should do, is to make their nicknames more, make their criminal nicknames more aspirational, so that Corey, the next Corey Miller, for example, instead of picking the nickname like Seymurter, would go for something like Seabankfrod, or G identity theft, see what I'm saying?

Just more aspirational. The hip hoppers are tuning out now, you're welcome, hello to the rest of you, welcome to the show. We know we don't kill, but that alone don't count, without the sweat, we told mine wouldn't be worth the dime. Got to live and give, share and care, really put some love in me, yeah. When you're never found, you got to pick him up, nobody can live in the spare, everybody let's sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, so bitchin, do I think, make a better world

to live in, society has no priority, we're all just a part of the whole, and when the people shout, you got to hear them out, everybody is a beautiful soul, we got to work together, hand in hand, really got to do our best, now wouldn't it be a perfect sight to see, the whole world feel what's happening, everybody loves, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, love, bitchin, do I think, make a better world to live in, what happened,

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From just by the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the Lake Baby, I'm Harry Shere, welcoming you to this edition of the show. And we, on this weekend, are being told that North Korea is fixing to test a long-range missile. A missile that could, if intelligence, I'm sorry, is correct. Reach California, possibly. So, with that news ringing in our newshold, there might be a news scrutiny drawn, says the Reuters News Service, to the U.S. efforts to build a reliable system to intercept such missiles. That system is not still not fully working, and by fully, I think they mean, at all. But let's dig deeper.

Washington has built a complex of interceptor missiles, advanced radar stations, and data relays designed to detect and shoot down a warhead like the North Korean Warhead. But tests of the system have had mixed results. The Pentagon's testing office said in January, it may offer only, quote, some protection. Some protection against a missile attack. You know what kind of protection that is, right? The condom with the one-inch hole type protection. We've spent about $10 billion a year developing the system under President Bush. In eight intercept tests of the ground-based system, the interceptor has hit a mock incoming warhead five times. Reuters fails to note, I think, I recall, that the missile knew where the interceptor knew where the missile was going to be, which was a good clue. Testing was suspended after interceptors failed to leave their silos during tests in December 2004 and February 2005. Failures blamed on quality control issues.

Of course, those wouldn't be important when you're building a missile defense system. Quality control issues, ladies and gentlemen. When and if the missile defense system is in an operational status, says a Pentagon spokesman, it has a capability against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack. Note the use of when and if the test failures and technical challenges have delayed plans to declare the system operational. Although, as you know, from last week's broadcast, the Pentagon has said they may never declare it operational. They may just keep building it. Commanders say it has a rudimentary capability against a limited missile attack, so duck and don't cover, ladies and gentlemen. That's reassuring and now news of Iraq, because the President went there this week and went all the way around an area one foot and perimeter in the green zone to show how safe it was. Meanwhile, back here, the Pentagon has stopped releasing its assessment of the number of Iraqi army units that they deemed capable of battling insurgents without U.S. military help.

That was a useful number. That's why the Pentagon has stopped releasing it. U.S. officials had been releasing a tally every three months of Iraqi military units that were sufficiently trained to operate by themselves. The decision to stop making the information public came according to the Associated Press after reports showed a steady decline in the number of qualified Iraqi units. Is there a pattern there? I can't tell. The number is now classified, says Air Force General. Oh, I can't tell you his name. Yes, I can. I'm going to anyway. Lieutenant General Victor Renewart. That's that movie theater on Santa. Why am I making L.A. jokes? L.A. didn't hear this show today. The fielding of independent Iraqi units is a critical indicator blah, blah, blah. As you know, last June, Pentagon said three Iraqi battalions were ready to fight by themselves by last fall. The number had dropped to one by February. That number had fallen to zero, meaning probably by now they always won.

When the downward trend became known, Senator John McCain and Susan Collins, both Republicans, expressed disappointment about the lack of progress. Collins said it, quote, contributes to a loss of public confidence in how the war is going. Unquote. Pentagon in response then decided to stop releasing those reports. It's like a machine. You put this in and that comes out. That's why the information is now classified when it had been previously made public. Peter Rodman, am I allowed to say his name? Assistant Defense Secretary for International Security Affairs said the figure was only supposed to be classified, even though military officials had routinely released it. Somebody's head is going to roll. That was classified. The good news. Last week we had a cable from the US ambassador in Iraq to the State Department, dated May. With some of the good news, like how bad it is really in Baghdad. Well, now the Washington Post has a cable marked sensitive, outlining the daily worsening conditions for those who live outside the green zone.

This page is long, some highlights. In April, employees began reporting a change in demeanor of guards at the green zone checkpoints. They seem to be more militia-like. militia-like. In some cases, seemingly taunting, when employee asked us to explore getting her press credentials because guards had her held her embassy badge up and proclaimed loudly to nearby passers-by, embassy, as she entered. Such information is a death sentence if overheard by the wrong people. Employees all share a common tale of their lives of nine employees and March only four had family members who knew they worked at the embassy. Iraqi colleagues called after hours, often speak Arabic and indication they cannot speak openly. In English, we cannot call employees in on weekends or holidays without blowing their cover.

Very painful. Way to be blown. For at least six months, we have not been able to use any local staff members for translation in press events. More recently, we have begun shredding documents which show local staff surnames. In March, a few staff members approached us to ask what provisions would we make for them if we, the Americans, evacuate. Our staff report that security and services are being rerouted through local providers whose affiliations are vague. Those admonishing citizens on their dress are not known to the residents. Neighborhood power providers are not well known to the residents nor is it clear how they avoid robbery or targeting. Personal safety depends on good relations with the neighborhood governments who barricade streets and ward off outsiders. The central government, our staff says, is not relevant. People no longer trust most neighbors. That a sensitive cable from the pages of the Washington Post.

President Bush said this we could just press conference asked about whether the tide is turning in Iraq. We'll be able to measure progress. You can measure progress in capacity of Iraqi units. Of course, that number is now classified. You can measure progress in megawatts of electricity delivered. You can measure progress in terms of oil sold on the market, on behalf of the Iraqi people. All right, crude oil production remains below pre-war levels in Iraq according to State Department figures. Despite huge investments, electricity is blacked out more than half the day in most of the country and in Baghdad, electricity is operational in average of eight hours daily, less than half of pre-war levels. This information from that hotbed of subversives, the State Department. A great story this week. What's going to be the shape, the nature of the amnesty being offered by the new congratulations, the new Iraqi government? On Thursday, the Washington Post reported the Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki proposed a limited amnesty to help end the insurgency as part of a national reconciliation plan.

The plan, according to the Washington Post, which broke the story on Thursday, the plan, quote, is likely to include pardons for those who had attacked only US troops, unquote, according to a top advisor. That same day, later, the Prime Minister's office accepted the resignation of that advisor. The advisor who resigned, Adnan Ali Al Kadimi, however stood by his account of what the amnesty would be. See, in the meantime, when the story appeared in the Washington Post, Democrats raced to denounce a pardon on those who had killed American troops. But Al Kadimi stood by his account. He said Maliki had indicated the same position, less directly, in public. Quote, the Prime Minister himself has said he is ready to give amnesty to the so-called resistance provided they have not been involved in killing Iraqis.

Says Kadimi. Maliki's office, the Prime Minister, said Mr. Kadimi doesn't represent the Iraqi government on this issue. Mr. Kadimi is not an advisor or the spokesman for the Prime Minister. Kadimi also worked as an aide to the previous Prime Minister, said he had submitted his resignation earlier in the week, apparently before the Washington Post story ran. Another Maliki aide asked if the amnesty being considered was likely to apply to those who had attacked US forces said Maliki had been clear, saying those whose hands weren't stained with a rocky blood may be eligible for any amnesty. That aide spoke on condition of anonymity, presumably because he wants to keep his job. Another aide declined to comment. Maliki's broad statements about amnesty in his news conference marked the first time a leader from the Shiite religious parties had indicated openness to pardoning members of the Sunni insurgency. Maliki's comments were in Arabic and televised. The translation was verified by many outlets.

From the Glasgow Sunday Herald, this is a story about the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees asks, who in the international community wants to say there is a refugee crisis in Syria and Jordan? Because saying that is to admit that the US war created the conditions for this. International aid agencies are publishing the first comprehensive report into the plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria since the start of the war. They estimate that 450,000 Iraqi refugees live there and warn of increasing prostitution forced amn onto Iraqi women and girls, some as young as 12 years old. That's the Iraqi womanhood deal. And finally, the news of Iraq ladies and gentlemen in the mission accomplished department. Oh no, sorry, there's more news of the new Iraq. There's been a massive increase in reported cases of sexual abuse in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a non-governmental organization called the Women's Rights Association.

Now in the mission accomplished department. The doors may be closing shortly on the nine-year-old project for a new American century. That's the Neo-Conservative Think Tank headed by William Crystal, former chief of staff to Dan Quail, editor of the Weekly Standard. The PNAC was founded by some people whose names you'd recognize, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Scooter Libby, William J. Bennett, Ambassador to Iraq, Zalme Khalazad, and Dan Quail. PNAC and its supporters dominated the Bush administration's foreign policy apparatus and championed a policy to get rid of Saddam Hussein long before September 11, 2001. There had been debate about what the future was of this organization, but the feeling said a source was of quote, goal accomplished.

It's pardon me, that should be goal accomplished, shouldn't it? I guess so. Goodbye to the project for a new American century. And hello to the Apologies of the Week. I'm going to lead off with an apology first of all, ladies and gentlemen. A couple people told me this. Last week's story about palm trees in Tor Bay, England, which I read, included me pronouncing a community spelled T-O-R-Q-U-A-Y as Torque, but it's actually pronounced Torque. Post this program extends his apologies to people who live in such a weirdly named community. They had line London, the Metropolitan Police apologized this week for the hurt they may have caused after an innocent man said he was shot without warning during a dawn raid by police seeking a possible chemical bomb.

A man and his brother said the officer who shot him fired straight away during the raid in East London, which involved about 250 police. I just saw an orange spark and a big bang. I flew into the wall, slipped down. There was blood coming down my chest. Said Muhammad Abdul Qahar. Police were wearing chemical, biological and radiological protection suits, assistant commissioner Andy Hammond apologized, but said the intelligence received had raised serious concerns for public safety. I'm aware that in mounting this operation, Hammond said we have caused disruption and inconvenience. I apologize for the hurt that we may have caused by shooting a guy. He didn't say shooting a guy to sit. The hurt we may have caused, daylight washing to President Bush often teases members of the White House press corps. He apologized Wednesday after he poked fun at a reporter for wearing sunglasses without realizing they were needed for vision loss. Exchange occurred in the news conference in the Rose Garden. Bush called on a reporter for the Los Angeles dog trainer.

They said they still have reporters. I thought they all took early retirement. Peter Wallstein asked if he was going to ask this question with his shade on. Shades on. For the viewers, there is no sun. Bush said to the television cameras. But even though the sun was behind the clouds, Wallstein still needs the sun glasses because he has stargarts disease, a form of macular degeneration that causes progressive vision loss. He is sensitive to glare. Even on a cloudy day, it can increase pain and increase the loss of sight. Wallstein said Bush called his cell phone later in the day to apologize. But to tell him, he didn't know he had the disease. Wallstein said he interrupted and told the president that no apology was necessary. He didn't feel offended since he hadn't told anyone at the White House about his condition. He said, I need a new guys out of affection. Wallstein said. Keith Obermann's vacation isn't going so well. He was forced to apologize this week after his emails found his way to the New York Daily News. Old Obermann's antagonistic fans claimed in their emails that dead alchidic terrorist Zarkawi was Obermann's hero, prompting Obermann to reply,

hey, save the oxygen for somebody whose brain can use it. Kill yourself. Obermann now writes, quote, I apologize to anyone who might take offense at my part of this correspondence. It goes without saying that I should not have replied to these abusive and hateful emails. But I wonder how many of us could receive literally hundreds of them questioning our patriotism, religion and ethnic origin, without succumbing to the natural wish to confront such hate. Daylight Washington, the U.S. Marine Corps is investigating whether Marine did anything wrong by singing an obscenity-laced song to a laughing and cheering crowd of fellow U.S. troops in Iraq. The song made light of killing Iraqis. The formatted video of the performance is posted on the internet. Corporal Joshua Belial sings lyrics about encountering an Iraqi woman and her family. As the bullets began to fly, he sings the blood sprayed from between her eyes and the eye laughed, maniacally, in the background laughing, clapping and cheers can be heard.

The Marines have called the song clearly inappropriate. Where is the apology? Oh, Belial, who stationed at North Carolina, came back to this country recently. He's a member of a band called The Sweater Kittens with a Z, told a new local newspaper the song was supposed to be funny. It's a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny. He said, I apologize for any feelings that may have been heard in the Muslim community. This song was written in good humor, not aimed at any party, foreign or domestic. That's a good disclaimer. The Chairman of Hyundai, on trial for corruption charges, has apologized for approving a slush fund at the South Korean automaker. That seems to happen about once every two weeks for the Chairman of Hyundai apologizes. The Chicago Sun Times apologizes for a cartoon by Jack Higgins in Tuesday's paper that incorporated inaccurate imagery to make a statement about the allegations that US Marines had killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

A World Cup referee apologized to Australian players for a blunder that could have cost them their game against Japan, according to the goalkeeper of the team, Egyptian referee Assam Abd El Fatah admitted, during a stoppage in play that he was wrong not to call a foul. And that's my cell phone ringing, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of my broadcast. Good lesson for all of us. Apparently impeded by Japanese players, the Australian referee apologized. Dateline Tokyo swiss firm Shindler Holdings said it was cooperating with investigation by Japanese authorities into the death of a high school student killed in one of its elevators, but stopped short of taking responsibility for its accident. The company said its top priority was to rehabilitate its image in Japan. Quote, I am very sorry that this perception has been created that we are manufacturing deadly elevators. We have a reputation to defend. We want to gain again the confidence of the Japanese writing public.

Officials at W.S.C.R. in Chicago met with nine local Asian American leaders to discuss Morning Man. Magnorets were used to the word China moon to discuss the Korean-born picture. J.Cook Ru. It was very productive and educational, said general manager Paul Agase. Agase, Agase, Agase, Agase. Who met with officials from the organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Chicago, as well as the Asian American Institute. North said he wanted to attend the meeting, but was not permitted to. Finally apologize on the air for his comment more than a week after he said it. I said that word for 14 years on the score and was never told it was wrong, but I looked it up in the dictionary and it said can be viewed as offensive language to someone of Asian descent. So I apologize and took the high road. I know this. I'll never say it again. I don't make the same mistake again. The apologies of the week, ladies and gentlemen. You will never do that again. It is a copyrighted feature of this very broadcast. I'm sorry.

Honey, when I'm away, you always want to know who I see what I do. And everywhere I go, and it's while you're out, use the list. Drop off that pickup list. You're stealing that chair. That's where you eat. Please don't make me try to get away from you. I'm right here for you, baby, but you gotta give me something to. Honey, you better chew. Do you want me or these honeydew? I do most everything that I ever could do. All the love of God, I only give to you. Honey, if you knew, I love her from a crutch. You know that everything you're doing, don't amount to much.

Honey, do you see while you're sitting there with two good legs and two good arms and your butt still stuck in that chair? It's get me this, reach me back. Try the bacon, feed the cat. You're stealing that chair, just getting back. I try to satisfy all your wishes and your wants. I assume these honeydew are going to turn into doubts. So, honey, you better chew. Do you want me or these honeydew? Honey, you better chew. Do you want me or these honeydew? Honey, you better chew. Do you want me or these honeydew?

Honey, do this. Honey, do that. Reach me this. Reach me that. Now, where is please? Where is thank you? You're making a very large assumption. And you know what they say about the word assumption. Now, you know your king of this castle. As long as I'm ready. But you got to put a little please in there sometimes. And every now and then, thank you some honeydews to say, you know, you got me? I wouldn't stay here if I didn't look. Put every now and then. Put in some please and thank you. Do you honeydew? Turn them into honeydews.

This is La Show and it appears to be official ladies and gentlemen. After 44 years Dan Rather will leave CBS by the end of the month at the latest. According to industry sources quoted by the Philadelphia inquirer on Friday. His departure could come as early as this coming week 74 year old Rather. Whose contract runs until late November is working out the final details of his exit agreement. Money is not an issue among the sticking points whether he'll have access to his archival material. Rather decline to comment CBS issued a comment that said nothing. Like virtually all CBS executives networks are Leslie Moonves once a rather supporter had distance himself from Rather since the memo gate incident forced.

Rather off the air as anchor at the CBS evening news since then he's been a correspondent at 60 minutes. Rather and Moonves had not had a conversation for more than eight months according to newsroom sources. His last 60 minutes piece on the Whole Foods Empire ran June 4th. Apparently according to other reports being not allowed to cover Hurricane Katrina and for trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Rather paid for his own Middle East visit two months ago visiting Doha, Qatar and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Quote to keep up my sources and contacts. That's he told the Philadelphia inquirer that too. At CBS almost every correspondent or executive refused to go on the record about Rather for fear of reprisal from whom. The few who did were restrained said Mike Wallace.

It's a sad story. Wallace a vocal rather critic in the past. He's a good man who is a wonderful reporter. He remains a wonderful reporter. Said 60 minutes had Bradley quote I feel sorry for Dan because he's not happy. This isn't what he wanted. I think anybody would like to go out on their own terms. I'm sure he I'm sure he's sorry that didn't happen. It's a very, very complicated situation. Bradley concludes. Bradley who just had his own salary. Curfuffle with the network. A former CBS executive. Anonymity of course. Says the network's treatment of Rather is quote disgraceful. He's a legend. He gave his life to that company. Even though he had made a big mistake, he did 43 years and 11 months of great work. An executive at another network said CBS should have had a smash send off plan for Rather well in advance. Quote this slow twisting in the wind feels wrong. Rather for whatever reason refuses to accept a lesser role that would keep him at the network. 60 minutes creator Don Hewitt and former anchor Walter Cronkite.

Still are under contract to maintain offices at CBS News, though their duties are light. He was asked by the New York Times, Dan was. Whether he'll be rooting for Brian Williams or Charles Gibson to beat Katie Couric in the ratings. He said no, he'll always be rooting for CBS News. And the New York Times reports that among the places he sought solace, he said, was watching good night and good luck. George Clooney's homage to Edward Armero. And that era's CBS News. Rather said he had seen the film five times in theaters. Most recently. Alone. A bad day at BlackRock next on the show. Let me see this.

Some concession counter. By Eastern for pork cracklings two weeks ago. I haven't made a concession on that yet. Excuse me, is this, let's see, taken? No, but it seems to me you've got a whole... Uncle Walter. Brother, rather. I know what you're thinking, Uncle Walter. You've waited like a midget in the wings for this moment. Daniel's down. He's fighting faster than a hobo in a marathon. Let's go taunt him in his... Daniel, I'm here because you're asleep. You've dreamed me here. And that's... No, spare me the son of sir, please. At least I had one. One, how many did you end up with? Last time I looked. They didn't give Peabody Awards for sign-offs. They don't give them for document verification either, still.

You get the metaphor in this movie, sir. The analogy. Les Moonviz is my McCarthy. And my build pillar is... The owner of the Dallas Mavericks, yes, Daniel. Even your critics are saying it's sad. That must be the hardest part. Murrow never got pity for McCarthy, as I remember. You never forgave me, did you, Brother Conqueror? I had a couple of chance conversations with our fearless leader about compulsory retirement for anchors at 65. And then, when you got the anchor chair, you tried to hang on till I had to pry your hands finger by finger off the armrest. And what was your big beef? You didn't get enough work to do. I'm a plough horse, sir, not a show horse. This vehicle came with the expedition package standard equipment. I'm like tumbleweed. I will when I'm planted, huh? I listen here, Daniel. What do you think I got to do when I was eased out by certain forces? You had your dust, you had your assistant?

And you get to do that series of documentaries? Yes, for P-freaking BS. CBS said they couldn't afford documentaries. Well, the desk and the assistant every year. So, sir, I sailed and attended board meetings. Not the worst life in the world. It keeps you from getting bitter, you know. How's the new one? No, she's great. How's the old one? No, she's double great. The kids playing me all wrong. Excuse me, Walter? I didn't say anything. It was him. Hello, Daniel. Ed. Ed Murrow, sir, I'm so flattered. You accepted the invitation of my unconscious to come visit my dream. Anything to take a break from the spinning. You know, graves weren't built for it. Ideally, they should be at least somewhat rounded. You're watching this film again?

Yes, sir. He thinks he's you. And Belle Paley is the coach of the Mavericks. I know. I heard it from the wings. Like the midget. Dan, I had such hope for you. When you elbowed past Roger mud to get the job, I saw a tough young, not me, exactly, more like a country-fired Cullingwood. Well, that's almost high a praise indeed. Excuse me, brother, rather. What scoundrels did you help expose? What scandals and chains did you wither into this spotlight of public knowledge? Did you see my 60-minute speech in the whole foods empire? Last piece of mind will ever air on CBS. CBS? Mm-hmm. It's tough to laugh while I'm spinning. Don't make me do it. This company is just the rump survivor of a financial deal by a tobacco air who unloaded it on a guy who made his fortune selling popcorn in dumps like this one.

Nolan fairness. This is stadium-seeding, brother, Murrell. It hasn't been CBS for decades. CBS had fresh apples on everyone's desks. That was CBS. Well, no, it wasn't the same, sir. We didn't even have applesauce, but I like to think we did our share of tough-knuckled, hard cajones, scuffed shoe leather reporting Abu Ghraim. The world learned about it first from your producer who was handed the photos, which part of our pumps did she scuff up? Hey, brother Murrell. Don't listen to Uncle Walter here. He's a... He's Turkish coffee-bitter. Oh, look. Don't get me started. Brother Kronkite was a dignified prompter reader. He couldn't have gotten a documentary on the air of Hitler had come back to life and been shot. I always said we were just a glorified headline service. I thought that was a criticism, until I saw what it looked like, un-glorified. You know something, three-eyed, odd.

I invited you, folks, into my dream to give me some reassurance and some company, by the way, Daniel. You do know you're watching the trailer. The actual film is playing in Cinema 2. And Cinema 2 is closed for cleaning. Kick me out. I was the only viewer in there. Damn wire service information. All right, Daniel, look. You may not have always had the best strategy or the best tools, but you thought they'd good fight. It's... it's unsurprisingly close to criticism, but don't take it. Brother Murrell? Ed? I guess, after all, he preferred spending. You aren't my advice, brother, rather. You're advice? It would make me award speech humble. Super kitchen grateful. Don't hang on to the past. If you want to do good work, go boldly into the future.

Do your good work for a channel that not even Dirk Novitsky gets on his cable. It's win-win. You know something, brother, Krunker? I missed out on cable. I missed out on the whole internet thing. This homebri is not going to miss the high definition train. It's going to be bigger than French fries and fat-free tallow. I sure hope so, Daniel. And if not, those board meetings are a hoot and a half. I'm going to go now. We've got a date in an actual theater. You take care, Uncle Walter, and I'm sorry. Not pedophile priests, sorry, but dog in the trash, sorry. Lucky I lived 25 more years just so I could hear you say that. So long, brother, brother. I'd say my son off to you, but... What makes someone a danger to his country? Think it's your dreams and the use of this side?

Over the people are they elected by the appointee? Got all the sparkles, got caught, got everything, man I'm busy with it Got partly out issues and nothing, I'm in a night video Yes, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen The problem's all inside your head she said to me The answer's easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you when your struggle to be free It must be 50 ways to leave your lover

Leave your lover dog She said it's really not my habit to win truth Furthermore, hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued But I'll repeat myself Say it again, say it again The risk of sounding good, it must be 50 ways to leave your lover 50 ways, 50 ways 50 ways to leave your lover It just slipped out the bat Jack Brown, make a new plan Don't need a decoy rod Just set yourself free I'll fall on the bars It don't need a disguise Just chop off the key Release Set yourself free She said it greets me so to see you in such pain I wish there was something that I could do to see you smile again I said thank you baby, I really appreciate it, let you know

But will you just please explain it must be 50 ways I'm not just like a mother, she said why don't we both just sleep on it tonight And I believe in the morning It will begin to see the light and then she kiss me And I realized she probably was right There must be 50 ways to leave your lover Yeah, sing again dog, come on 50 ways to leave your lover It just slipped out the bat Jack Brown, make a new plan Stage crown Don't need a decoy rod Just set yourself free I'll fall on the bars It don't need a disguise Just chop off the key Release Set yourself free She said it greets me so to see you in such pain

Stage crown don't need a decoy rod Just set yourself free I'll fall on the bars It don't need a disguise Just chop off the key Release Set yourself free This is Lesho and Time for news from outside the bubble In early March, nine of Mogadish's Most prominent community leaders secretly flew to neighboring Djibouti And pleaded with US military officials there to stop funding the warlords Who were devastating the capital city of Somalia Backing the warlords they said would end up strengthening an Islamist militia with a shadowy radical wing The Americans, according to Nightrider newspapers, ignored their warnings Three of the Somalis at the meeting told Nightrider in separate interviews and the community leaders fears came to life this week

When the Islamic courts union militia defeated the warlords and took control of the Somali capital Now the Bush administration's Somalia strategy is in tatters And the Islamist militia is poised to extend its control to all of southern Somalia It is impossible to confirm the Somali leader's version of events US officials in Washington have declined to comment on whether the US provided aid to the warlords Two US intelligence officials speaking anonymously For the usual reason confirmed however that CIA financial support was coordinated by the agency station chief in Nairobi Two US intelligence officials speaking anonymously said the CIA financial support of the warlords was approved by the Bush administration And news agencies quoting residents in Mogadishu Yes Report of the two warlords fled to an American naval vessel off the Somali coast Deadline, Afghanistan, the US government routinely failed to give detainees at Guantanamo Bay access to witnesses who might have helped them prove their assertions of innocence

Said it could not locate the vast majority of the witnesses that suspects requested at special military hearings But within a three day span a Boston Globe reporter was able to locate three of those witnesses in the case of one detainee Two of them in Afghanistan and a third in Washington where he's teaching the National Defense University US of course was forced by the Supreme Court to give hearings to the 500 prisoners being held at Gitmo At the time the military pledged to try to locate defense witnesses to give testimony for those hearings But later routinely reported that they could not be found Nearly all of those approved witnesses in certain cases were deemed unavailable because the governments of the country where the witnesses lived did not respond to a state department request for help in locating them Military investigators and state department officials did not even contact witnesses who were well known to US authorities this according to the Boston Globe

Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Commander Chito Pepler so the defense department did not keep track of how many witnesses were located He acknowledged that no overseas witness had ever been brought to testify at Gitmo so say Chito Pepler, ladies and gentlemen And the MNI captive who killed himself at Guantanamo Bay had an attorney arranging to visit him in August according to Miami Harold but did not know it when he committed suicide He'd been one of the another one had been approved for transfer to a jail back home but he'd never been told that Attorneys for the men who the military initially said had no lawyers say that had they detained his known of legal efforts on their behalf They might be alive today And a deadline, Chapman, Pakistan, the Afghan market of Chapman and Balooka stand province is when walking distance of the checkpoint that marks the border with Afghanistan's spin bull deck area Thousands of people crisscrossed between the countries every day

More than a decade ago the area was the backyard of the Taliban movement from where many of its second tier leaders emerged to bolster the government in Kabul As recently as a year ago says the Asia times after concerted efforts by the Pakistani government as a partner in the US led war on terror The region was said to have been one over to serve as a hub for trade between south and central Asia Billions of dollars were poured into highways tunnels and railway tracks A town planning blueprint was drawn up Not in New Orleans ladies and gentlemen, Chapman, Balooka stand, Pakistan The plan works as the Asia times there are definite signs of prosperity in the town and has become a hub for radicalism All the districts near the Afghan border have been heavily radicalized Says a resident who runs a non-governmental organization Youth do not have any other passion in life but to go to Afghanistan and kill Americans Says the youth One of the, I'm over here, one of the youths, one of the many youths

So let's clear our mental palette ladies and gentlemen if we may for just a moment with news of the warm The Adeline Sydney Australia rapid global warming poses a variety of security threats to the Asia Pacific region that have been seriously underestimated That's George Bush talk, seriously underestimated a new study says The report released this week by a Sydney-based think tank paints a grim scenario of disease, food and water shortages, natural disasters, territorial tensions and mass population movements, threatening political stability In the region, rising sea levels could threaten heavily urbanized parts of Asia such as China's yellow and Yangtze River deltas and heavily populated low-lying countries such as Bangladesh

Warmer temperatures could see the greater spread of infectious diseases and weather events could diminish food and clean water supply And ancient woolly mammoth from Sydney, ancient woolly mammoth bones and grasslands locked in a 1 million square kilometer stretch of Siberian permafrost are starting to thaw with the potential to unleash billions of tons of carbon And accelerate global warming according to Russian and American scientists It's like taking food out of your freezer, leave it on your counter for a few days and it rots Says University of Florida botany professor Ted Schur describing the process in which bacteria convert decaying animal and plant matter into karma dioxide And methane, you see ladies and gentlemen The study published in the journal Science concluded while other global warming researchers were factoring carbon reserves in the ocean and in soils and vegetation on the earth into their calculations They had overlooked the vast amounts of carbon trapped in permafrost in Siberia and central Alaska

It all thawed and was released as heat-trapping carbon dioxide It could nearly double the 730 billion tons of carbon now in the atmosphere Finally news of the warm, researchers say cutting the number of airplane flights to take off at night could help to reduce the contribution of aviation Global warming, night flights contribute to climate change because the white streaks of condensation left behind by jets trap energy emitted from the earth's surface Daytime flights, the contrails reflect some of the sun's energy back into this base which has a cooling effect This is New Orleans news of the warm ladies gentlemen, that's copyrighted, this is New Orleans ladies and gentlemen And on the suburb in you know out near the city limits, out near the edge of town, you see you know big box stores selling religious merchandise already But they're just not marketing it correctly yet Something this big couldn't have just evolved but look what's just been created

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